And fans would do well not to become attached to the teams and stars on the road to the national championship, inasmuch as they could eventually forfeit their honors, the way Reggie Bush and Southern California have done and will continue to do.
Impressed the Spurs try to forfeit the game in his honor, but the gallant Durant says it wouldn't be fair because his team had earned it.
Since surrender was considered shameful, any Americans who had given themselves up were deemed to have lost their honor and thus "forfeited fundamental human respect".
In literature and often in historical accounts of human action, dedication to one's own self-regard is referred to as "honor". Lives have been forfeited, wars have been fought over "honor". It is an ancient concern.
If you receive an "I" in a course, you forfeit eligibility for Dean's List honors in that semester.
Speaking of debate, the Logic DESTROYER's kin still live in a world where failure to accept a gentlemanly duel challenge besmirches one's honor and counts as a forfeit.
The Astros asked a federal judge earlier this month to force Enron either to honor its contractual obligations to the team or forfeit the naming rights.
Seven members of Navy SEAL Team 6, including one involved in the mission to get Osama bin Laden, received reprimands and forfeited some pay for disclosing classified information to the maker of a video game, "Medal of Honor: Warfighter," senior Navy officials said Thursday.
Coach of the year is the highest individual honor in a particular season for someone who works the sideline; Belichick, if he wins, should forfeit the honor.
And so his humanity is not an "issue" to be debated nor a privilege that can either be forfeited by him or demanded of him; it is a reality that makes profound moral demands on us to honor, which don't go away even when he profoundly, hideously rejected his own moral responsibility to care about James Byrd.
